Compatibilism: Determinism Or Free Will?

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Term Paper There is a lot of different things that come to mind when you think of the term free will such as are we free or are we determined? And I am going to argue that. There are many different meanings for the term free will but the philosophy meanings is for many philosophers to believe that human beings can be the authors of their actions and be entitled to reject the idea that human actions are determined by external conditions or fate. Free Will is also the philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action among various different scenarios that are given to them. A lot of philosophers believe that the concept of free will is connected to the concept of moral responsibility. …show more content…

Compatibilism is the believe that free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent. Compatibilists also believe that freedom can be present or absent in situations for reasons that have nothing to do with metaphysics. The term compatibilism has a solution for the free will problem, which is a big problem between free will and determinism. Because free will is normally taken to be a necessary condition of morally responsibility, compatibilism is sometimes expressed about the compatibility between moral responsibility and determinism. Many compatibilists are accepting the view of a casual chain of events going back to indefinitely in time, consistent with the laws of nature, and with the plan of an omniscient God, or with other determinists. They also think that as long as their own will is included in the chain, the will be free. Most of the compatibilists today believe that freedom from constraint is not enough for us to act freely. The reason is because there seems to be cases in which we have freedom from different external constraints but that we have strong internal constraints that prevent us from acting in the way that people normally want to act. Some different cases to this is brainwashing or …show more content…

And the reason you didn’t except that offer was because you were scared of someone finding out that you took the bribe and that you would end up going to jail. Some possible objections that could go with this argument is that if no one found out that you took this bribe would you end up getting caught and going to jail and instead of going to jail and not getting caught you would end up being rich and getting a lot of money out of it. Another objection that would go with this is instead of taking the bribe you could tell the police that you were offered an illegal bribe and instead of you going to jail for it the guy giving you the bribe would end up getting in

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